Hej alla!
I am a new and at the same time old postdoctoral fellow in Magne Friberg’s group. New because I just started here at Lund University. Old because I was already a postdoc in Magne’s group at Uppsala University for the two previous years.
In my current project, I study the relative importance of effects of whole-genome duplications (polyploidization, the most dramatic form of mutation) and selection mediated by specialised and generalised pollinators on the variation in complex floral traits such as floral scent. As study species, I use the Californian plant Lithophragma bolanderi (Saxifragaceae), which is involved in a coevolutionary interaction with its highly specialised, pollinating seed parasite Greya politella (a Prodoxidae moth), but is also pollinated by generalised pollinators.
I did my PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In my PhD project, I studied pollinator-mediated evolution in Orchids in Southern Italy and the Swiss lowlands and the lovely Swiss mountains. The latter, are probably the thing I miss most from my home country.
Vi ses!
Karin
